Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform

Carole Roche-Hawley (1)

1 OM - ORIENT ET MÉDITERRANÉE : Textes, Archéologie, Histoire

It may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained Assyriologists, to learn that at some point in the 13th century bc, a few adventurous Ugaritic scribes experimented with writing Akkadian magical texts in the local cuneiform alphabet. This chapter presents a survey of this intriguing dossier, retracing major advances in the history of its study and highlighting those (considerable) interpretational problems which remain.

Domaines: Histoire

Carole Roche-Hawley. Akkadian and Alphabetic Cuneiform. Juan Pablo Vita. A History of the Akkadian Language, Brill, pp.72-102, 2021, Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The ancient Near East, 152/1, 978-90-04-44520-8. ⟨hal-03101467⟩